Vanilla teams is a a stinking pile of shit. Corporate policies just add a bit of bonus nuclear waste to that.

Anbieten ist nicht gerade das Wort das ich waehlen wuerde

It generally doesn't have a high opinion of translators (note that the emojis here are inserted as path markers to help with prompt debugging - but everyting else is from the LLM):

Whats especially funny about that is that back when chatgpt just came out over a year ago it was quite tricky to make it use emojis - typically it would argue it is not designed to do that.

I always get annoyed when I'm on some system and nano pops up and I need to figure out how to kill that thing.

In that case I'd recommend waiting until next year before attempting recovery.

...which everybody with half a brain knew already over a decade ago when that stuff started.

I do understand that you guys have shittier taxi service over there than we generally do have in Europe, and it was tempting to go for something new - but there's a service like this has fixed costs, including car maintenance, and giving a higher cut to the app company than you was doing during taxi times where you was hardly getting by doesn't really work, once the venture capital dries up, and they try to make a profit.

Since everybody was running after uber like sheep you my end up with the actually sustainable transport destroyed - fortunately regulation saved us from the worst over here, though uber did have some negative impact.

At least in the EU Apple app store is considered a monopoly, and Apple is expected to allow third party stores during next year.

I'd just let them see, but make them temporarily go blind every time they'd be about to see something they care about, or are in a dangerous situation where being able to see would be useful.

I'll murder anyone trying to talk to me before I had my 430ml of strong black tea in the morning. I have two cats and hate dogs. Never been to the UK.

Not quite true, RCS (formerly Joyn) was designed by the consortium setting the cellular network standards as replacement for SMS and MMS. It was mainly expected to have the services run at the carrier network - though having it run somewhere else was an option (just like with SMS). Which is what google is doing now, they're running their own servers.

Efforts to develop the protocol started almost two decades ago, and it was supposed to be taken into use about 15 years ago - but the protocol is just horrible, so the main surprise is that it didn't fully die, but google ended up implementing it.

They could've done pretty much anything at that point - implementations for this were non-existent, and nobody really wanted to be the first to implement it, as - like I said - the whole thing is just horrible. It was requested back then when we started work on the Jolla1, but after having a closer look at the specs we laughed, and it was never brought up again.

Feel sorry for owners but that is the price of being cool.

How often do we need to repeat that cycle of "Product needlessly locked in becomes useless because manufacturer goes bust" before people are surprised that it happens?

I've been recommending not to buy locked in shit for pretty much two decades now, and I'm still considered a nutjob for doing so. Only thing I have left for people stupid enough to buy into something like that is schadenfreude.